doublte integral question

**tennisfreak412** · January 9th 2008, 08:04 PM

"The double integral $\iint_{R}^{} \, f(x,y) dx\,dy$ can be expressed as $\int_{\pi}^{2\pi}$ $\int_{1}^{2}$ $r^2 sin(\theta) dr\,d\Theta$ in polar coordinates. What is the region R? What is the formula for f(x,y)? What is the integral in cartesian coordinates?

**Jhevon** · January 9th 2008, 08:06 PM

Originally Posted by tennisfreak412

"The double integral $\iint_{R}^{} \, dx\,dy$ can be expressed as $\int_{Pi}^{2Pi}$ $\int_{1}^{2}$ $r^2 dr\,dTheta$

ummm...what's the question? are you supposed to find the region R?

by the way, type \pi to get $\pi$ and \theta to get $\theta$

**tennisfreak412** · January 9th 2008, 08:09 PM

sorry.. question is here:

"The double integral $\iint_{R}^{} \, f(x,y) dx\,dy$ can be expressed as $\int_{\pi}^{2\pi}$ $\int_{1}^{2}$ $r^2 sin(\theta) dr\,d\Theta$ in polar coordinates. What is the region R? What is the formula for f(x,y)? What is the integral in cartesian coordinates?

**Jhevon** · January 9th 2008, 08:13 PM

Originally Posted by tennisfreak412

"The double integral $\iint_{R}^{} \, f(x,y) dx\,dy$ can be expressed as $\int_{\pi}^{2\pi}$ $\int_{1}^{2}$ $r^2 sin(\theta) dr\,d\Theta$ in polar coordinates. What is the region R? What is the formula for f(x,y)? What is the integral in cartesian coordinates?

the radius goes from 1 to 2, the angle theta goes from pi to 2pi. thus the region R is the bottom half of the annulus formed by the circles with common center the origin, and radii 1 and 2 (see the diagram below).

since $\int \int f(x,y)~dxdy \to \int \int f(r \cos \theta, r \sin \theta)~rdrd \theta$ we see that the integral in polar coordinates is $r$ . and we know that $r = \sqrt{x^2 + y^2}$

i leave the rest to you

can you continue?

**tennisfreak412** · January 9th 2008, 08:21 PM

I got that, but the difficulty I'm having is doing the double integral for the annulus. I know that I can have the dy limits going from -2 to 0, right? but then how do I do the dx limits so that they incorporate both sides of the hole in the annulus?

**Jhevon** · January 9th 2008, 08:25 PM

Originally Posted by tennisfreak412

I got that, but the difficulty I'm having is doing the double integral for the annulus. I know that I can have the dy limits going from -2 to 0, right? but then how do I do the dx limits so that they incorporate both sides of the hole in the annulus?

Hint:

the equation for the inner semi-circle is: $- \sqrt{1 - x^2}$

the equation for the outer semi-circle is: $- \sqrt{4 - x^2}$

can you continue?

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